Sharp County record., 1887-05-19

snail sweep u Ino lOWOo1 plG vi perditi
all We murderers OF souls. | toll :.
though you may escape in this world /,
will be ground az last under the hooi
eternal calamities, and you will
chained to the rock, and you will have
vultures of despair clawing at your a,
and these whom you have DESTROYED ',
come around to torment you, and to ma
hotter Goals of fury upon your head !,
rejoice eternally in the outcry Of Va
pain and the howl of your damnatiou.
God shall wound the hairy scalp Of him d.
goeth on in his trespasses.
The clock strikes midnight. A fair n,
bends over a romance. The eyes A.
fire. The breath is quick and irregp,.
Occasionally the color dashes to \
cheek, and then dies out The han
tremble as though guadl
spirit were trying to shake /
deadly book out of the grasp. Hot ts,
fall. She laughs with shrill voice \
drops dead at its own sound. The sv,
on her lrow is the spray dashed up h
the river of death. The clock strikes
and the rosy dawn soon after begins
look through the lattice upon The n
form that looks like detained specie,
the night Soon in mad-house she
mistake her ringlets for curling serpe-
and thrust her white hand through
bars of the prison, and smite her hs
rubbing it back as though to puss
scalp from the skull, shrieking:
brainl my brain"
Oh, stand off from that WHY
YOU 90 sounding your way amid then
and warning buoys, when there is sud
vast ocean in which you may voyage
sail setl
There is one other thing | shall say
morning before l leave you, whether
want to hear it or not. That IS, that |
slider the lascivious rhetorical htest
# the day as most tremendous fOrn
There is no one who can like good
ures better than do. The quickest
most condensed way Of impresslng
public mind is by pictures, What
painter does by his brush for few IA
ties the engraver does by his knifetN
million. What the author accompn
by fifty pages the artist does byaf
The best part of painting that costs
900 you may buy for ten cents
paintings belong to the arlstocracyo
Engravings belong to the democrsg
art. You do we'll to gather good pict
in you homes. Spread them before
children after the tea hour is
and the evening circle is gath
Throw them on the invalid's Ci
Strew them through the rail trsl
cheer the traveller on his journey
them on the wall Of the nursery q
them in albums and portfolios.
speed the good pictures on their
with ministries of knowledge and nj
But what shall say Of the pro'tit
of this art to purposes Of iniquityl
death-warrants of the soul are at
street corner. They smite the vss
the young man with pollution. Ma
young man buying copy has boug
eternal discontinue. There maj
enough poison in one bad picture 70
on one soul, and that soul may poSr
and ten fifty, and the fifty hunt'
and the hundreds thousands
nothing but the measuring line ofa
ty can tell the height and depl
ghastliness, and horror OF the gre
doing. The work Of death that The
ed author does in a whole DooK
engrayer may do on half side ola
! rial.
Young man, buy not this moral & F
nine for your soul. Pick not up tbs
of coiled adders for your pocket. y
ize no newsstand that keeps them
your room bright with good engra1
but for these outrageous pictorlst
not one wall, not one bureau, 10
pocket. A man is no better THANH
ure he loves TO look at. If yourg
not pure, your heart can not be
newsstand one can guess the chsra
a man by the kind Of pictorial
chases. When the devil fails to get
| to read bad book, he sometimes
in getting him to look at bad
When Satan goes a-fishing he 90
care whether 1t is long line or
line, if he OILY draws his victim
ware of lascivious pictorials, your
in the name Of Almighty God !
you.
IfIhaye this morning successli
down any principles by which y
Judge in regard to books and news
then have done something whle
not be ashamed of on the day whh
try every mans work, OF what
Cherish good books and news ,,
beware of the bad ones. The
may save your soul; one paragir
ruin it. Benjamin Franklin san !
reading Of Cotton Mather's essa!
ing Good" nodded his entire s
assassin of Lord Russell declarel i
was led into crime by reading" +
romance. The consecrated JONI n
James, than whom England D.,
| duced a better man, uecl"i' o
old days that he had never ye. e
the evil effects of having for 1l'S =
utes once read bad book Du +
not 90 so far off. ] could come ~ =
and tell you of something tina. .gU =
my college days. l could 'ea "
comrade that was great heals. q
and generous. He was staayisD' "
honorable profession, but nc "a
fidel book in his trunk, and ne " II
one day: I'D W
"De Witt, would you like torTI 81
said: "Yes, l would u
book and read it only for q lev tv
Twas really startled with S% WI W
there, and handed the BOOK ''' SO
and said: u.s 81;
"You had better destroy ina, hs
No, he kept it He read IT. III de
It, After awhile he gave up i'| En-
myth. He gave up God a. So III
He gave up the Bible as a iaOV NJ al al
up the Church Of Christ as as .aori ~ ~
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